miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2014



NOTICIAS








I’m a friend of Colombia’s enemies of peace

 posted by Adriaan Alsema
I’m a friend of Colombia’s enemies of peace
I’m a big fan of peace. Consequently, I’m a big fan of the fact that the Colombian government and rebel group FARC have decided to resolve their issues through negotiations rather than trying to exterminate the opponent. However, a lot of my friends disagree with me.
In fact, half the Colombian population disagrees with me. They have no confidence in the talks and – under the opposition leadership of former President Alvaro Uribe – they have consistently demanded these talks to end or at least the conditions be renegotiated.
This has caused both the government and the FARC to dub them “enemies of peace” rather than “critics of these specific talks” what they are.
And this pisses me off, because my friends are good people.

When I was in favor of peace talks before the talks were held, or when I was critical of Uribe’s political responsibility for the killing of at least 4,000 civilians, my opinion was generally discarded as that of a “useful idiot.”